Search results for "What is Sound" - New World Encyclopedia
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- title=Motion picture (sound film)| image_name=AllQuietWesternFrontPosterA ... text=A sound film is a motion picture with synchronized sound, or ...969 bytes (140 words) - 21:37, 28 May 2022
- sonāns (sounding), from sonāre (to sound). The Latin is a calque of ... # A sound that results from the passage of air through restrictions ...1 KB (165 words) - 16:20, 30 November 2023
- # (countable) The formal or informal way in which a word is made to ... first syllable fought over how the first A should sound. ...1 KB (154 words) - 20:36, 31 October 2023
- text=The sousaphone is a brass instrument in the same family as the more widely known tuba. Created in the early 1890s by J.W. Pepper at the ...869 bytes (150 words) - 22:02, 24 February 2024
- confirmed to have exceeded the speed of sound in level flight. His active ... and perhaps even more so in breaking the sound barrier have been a source ...1 KB (182 words) - 20:47, 3 February 2021
- A Phoneme is a unit of sound that is a basic building block in the verbalizing of words in human communication. The ability of humans not only ...344 bytes (61 words) - 22:05, 24 February 2023
- The term supersonic is used to define a speed that exceeds the speed ... as 21 °C (70 °F), the value of Mach 1 is approximately 344 meters per ...7 KB (968 words) - 23:49, 26 February 2023
- {{Unification Aspects|Copyright is the exclusive right given to the ... but also forms of creative work such as sound recordings, films, photographs ...2 KB (299 words) - 00:37, 9 October 2020
- text=A Chinese character is a logogram used in writing Chinese, Japanese, sometimes Korean, and formerly Vietnamese. Four percent of Chinese ...763 bytes (103 words) - 20:23, 18 November 2023
- against) + φωνή or phōnḗ (voice, sound). Doublet of antiphon. ... #:"The Star-Spangled Banner" is the national anthem of the ...836 bytes (106 words) - 20:38, 30 April 2024
- text=A dream is the experience of a sequence of images, sounds, ideas, emotions, or other sensations during sleep, especially REM sleep. The ...761 bytes (118 words) - 17:41, 14 November 2021
- In physics, wavelength is the distance between repeating units of ... with the type of wave. For example, in a sound wave, the air pressure oscillates ...6 KB (857 words) - 23:20, 3 May 2023
- text=A sign language (also signed language) is a language which uses manual communication, body language, and lip patterns instead of sound to ...790 bytes (116 words) - 17:29, 27 December 2022
- Acoustics is a branch of physics that studies sound, or more precisely ... The word acoustic is derived from the ancient Greek word ακουστός ...7 KB (998 words) - 07:44, 14 June 2023
- text=In phonology and linguistics, a phoneme (/ˈfoʊniːm/) is a unit of sound that can distinguish one word from another in a particular language ...888 bytes (132 words) - 15:29, 25 February 2023
- In regular usage, the term sound is applied to any stimulus that excites ... We depend on sound for communication through speech and artistic expression ...16 KB (2,316 words) - 15:34, 4 February 2023
- A kantele (ˈkɑntele, from Finnish) or kannel (ˈkɑnːe) is a traditional ... The kantele has a long history in Finnish balladry and is experiencing ...6 KB (959 words) - 02:48, 5 October 2022
- of musical expression. The sousaphone is a rather recent addition, being ... with their giant bells facing forward is a stand-out feature in many ...1 KB (197 words) - 21:52, 24 February 2024
- The Doppler effect, named after Christian Doppler, is the apparent ... The hypothesis was tested for sound waves by the Dutch scientist Christoph ...10 KB (1,666 words) - 19:27, 2 August 2023
- Digital audio is a technology that uses digital signals for sound ... mass-production, and distribution of sound. Modern distribution of music ...10 KB (1,460 words) - 03:54, 29 July 2022
